Triple-S
Launched in December 2008, Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) is an initiative that seeks to identify sustainable approaches to water delivery and access by departing from project-based, one-off and stand-alone implementation of water systems. It is a six-year multi-country learning initiative that aims to contribute to the realisation of indefinitely sustainable water services delivered at scale . In collaboration with selected national partners, Triple-S will support a paradigm shift at the operational level for decentralised service delivery and will bring about a re-appraisal of the design and planning mechanisms of development assistance to the rural water supply sector .
Blog - Water Services That Last
This blog aims to regularly report experiences, stories and questions on rural water supply. It will ask questions and provoke debate on how sustainability of water systems can be improved. It seeks to provide examples and learn from failures. It does not aim to provide ready-made answers; if those would exist, they would win the Nobel Prize for Water, or, more likely, the Silver Bullet Award.
We invite you to contribute your thoughts and stories, to provoke and to question, and to share these debates more widely.
Everyone has a story to tell
Triple-S - Water Services that Last is carrying out research into the sustainability of rural water supplies. Please help us by spending a few minutes telling us your recent experience with rural water supply either hopeful or discouraging. You can go to: http://www.waterservicesthatlast.org/Voices/Story-initiative to share your experiences.
Supporting Rural Water Supply
This new book offers insights into the sustainability challenge for rural water sectors. Supporting Rural Water Supply takes a critical look and asks why we have been unable to provide a sustainable water service to rural people for so long. What are the critical success factors in the areas where there has been good progress? How can we support the adoption of a service delivery approach to rural water supply – one that moves beyond implementing infrastructure projects to delivering a reliable and indefinite service?
Ensuring rural water services that last: Lessons from a 13-country study
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to identify factors that contribute to, or constrain, the delivery of sustainable rural water services at scale.
“WASH services that last” focus in 2011
How can WASH services be built to last? This critical question for sustainable services will be given a special focus in the four Source feature issues planned for 2011. In each issue we will publish stories that will be tagged as “WASH services that last”.
International symposium Kampala
The Thematic Group on Scaling up Rural Water Services in collaboration with the Ministry of Water and Environment of the Government of Uganda, is organising an international symposium focusing on providing sustainable rural water services at scale, in Kampala,13-15 April 2010.
Triple-S Briefing Note (November 2009)
" A Way Forward - From Projects to a Service Delivery Approach" - Get introduced to the entry points of the Triple-S initiative; its innovative and dynamic approach to change in water delivery service; its pilot countries and national partners in this learning initiative; its working mechanisms; and its management approach. This briefing note demonstrates progress in the thinking behind Triple-S and how its team attempts to constitute and organise itself around getting the initiative off the ground in time for the conclusion of the initiative's inception phase.
20091112_Triple-S Briefing_v2.pdf (53.4 kB)
Factsheet Triple-S
IRC started a new learning initiative to improve water supply to the rural poor: Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S).The idea is to develop replicable, country-specific models for sustainable rural water services in pilot districts in Ghana and Uganda while catalysing the changes in sector behaviour necessary for the models to be widely applied at national and international levels. More information can be found in the factsheet.
20090811_TripleSFactSheet_v2_Final.pdf (247.6 kB)
